Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain structure is evolving to more dynamic organisations such extended enterprise and virtual enterprises, enhancing single entity autonomy, adaptability and dynamism properties. Such organisations are very different from the established, which imply organisational and technological shift through distribution, decentrali...

As research continues in active networks, the need for security cannot be over emphasised. To successfully maintain an active network it is essential that node operators be able to protect their node and code running on their node. However with the dynamic nature of these networks, a system based on static security would severely limit that dynamism. This paper looks at an approach to providing...

Computational grids provide mechanisms for sharing and accessing large and heterogeneous collections of remote resources such as computers, online instruments, storage space, data, and applications. Resources are requested (”discovered”) by specifying a set of desired attributes. Resource attributes have various degrees of dynamism, from mostly static attributes, such as operating system versio...

Coordination of multiagent systems is recently moving towards the application of techniques coming from the research context of complex systems: adaptivity and selforganisation are exploited in order to tackle openness, dynamism and unpredictability of typical multiagent systems applications. In this paper we focus on a coordination problem called collective sorting, where autonomous agents are...

This work analyzes the behavior of evolution strategies and their current mutation variants on a simple rotating dynamic problem. The degree of rotation is a parameter for the involved dynamism which enables systematic examinations. As a result the complex covariance matrix adaptation proves to be superior with slow rotation but with increasing dynamism those adaptation mechanism seldom find th...